Employees' Pension Scheme definitions clarify service categories, family eligibility, pension membership cessation, and international worker coverage under social security arrangements.

Definitions under the Employees' Pension Scheme, 2026 distinguish actual, contributory, non-contributory and past service; define eligible family, existing member, member, pension and International Worker; and specify when Pension Fund membership ceases. Eligible family includes spouses and children, including legally adopted children. International Worker coverage includes specified foreign employees and Indian employees covered by social security agreements, while designated Nepalese and Bhutanese nationals are deemed Indian workers. Terms not defined in the Scheme take their meanings from the Code on Social Security, 2020 and the Employees' Provident Funds Scheme, 2026.

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